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Attorney at Work’s Top 20 Articles of the Year

Attorney at Work

Congratulations, we made it! Here are the top articles from Attorney at Work's writers this year. The post Attorney at Work’s Top 20 Articles of the Year appeared first on Attorney at Work.

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As viral infections skyrocket, masks are still a tried-and-true way to help keep yourself and others safe

LLRX

The cold and flu season of 2022 has begun with a vengeance. Viruses that have been unusually scarce over the past three years are reappearing at remarkably high levels, sparking a “tripledemic” of COVID-19, the flu and respiratory syncytial virus, or RSV. This November’s national hospitalization levels for influenza were the highest in 10 years. Emily Toth Martin and Marisa Eisenberg are infectious disease epidemiologists and researchers, and have spent our careers focused on understanding how v

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Top 15 LawNext Podcast Episodes of 2022 and of All Time

LawSites

Since starting my LawNext podcast in 2018 , I have had the great fortune of sitting down almost every week for conversations with the “innovators and entrepreneurs who are driving what’s next in law.” While I enjoy each and every conversation, the numbers of listens reveal something about which topics and guests you, the listeners, found most interesting. .

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Time and Billing Essentials for Law Firms in 2023

Rocket Matter

It’s a well-established fact that lawyers work a lot of hours. In fact, a significant number of lawyers average more than 40 hours per week. While many law firms require that their attorneys work a mandatory number of billable hours (the time clients pay for directly) per week, that isn’t the extent of a lawyer’s workload. Additional responsibilities include travel, research, client intake and communication, and catching up on a constant backlog of administrative tasks. .

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Visibility Into the Strategy & Supporting Documents of Major US Law Firms

Law Firm Intelligence by Trellis aggregates state trial court data across the Trellis platform enabling users to: look up a particular metric related to a specific law firm (such as, how many cases a law firm had or has against another law firm), and see the actual dockets and documents supporting the metric. Trellis data is maximized in a revolutionary and unique way to provide users an exclusive look into a law firm litigating in state trial courts.

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Top Tech Tips: Using Microsoft Office 365 for Lawyers

Attorney at Work

Affinity Consulting | Bookmark this to track the latest articles on how to use Word, Outlook and Excel. The post Top Tech Tips: Using Microsoft Office 365 for Lawyers appeared first on Attorney at Work.

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Should Firm Leaders Take the Lead on Their Own Performance Review?

LLRX

Patrick J. McKenna , an internationally recognized author, lecturer, strategist and seasoned advisor to the leaders of premier law firms discusses why and how strong leaders should voluntarily initiate their own performance feedback. McKenna's detailed and actionable guide identifies the enormous benefits of doing so.

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LegalTech 2022 in Review – The Kennedy-Mighell Report Podcast

Dennis Kennedy

Tom Mighell and I invited our friend Debbie Foster to continue our annual podcast tradition of reflecting on the past year in legal technology in the style of ESPN’s Pardon the Interruption show. We tried to hit as many topics and highlights as we could in this fast-paced episode of The Kennedy-Mighell Report podcast on the Legal Talk Network. Here’s the show description for “ Pardon the Interruption: 2022 Edition “: If you know you know… will there be another Tom-a-riffic victory?

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FTX’s House of Cards

Ikigai Law

A post-mortem on the crypto-collapse being described as worse than Enron. If you doubted FTX some months back, many tweeps would accuse you of spreading FUD (fear, uncertainty, and doubt). After all, it was the third largest crypto exchange (by volume) and was valued north of $30 billion. Its founder, now infamous SBF , was then rescuing troubled crypto firms, drawing comparisons with the banking bigwig, JP Morgan.

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Pete Recommends – Weekly highlights on cyber security issues, December 24, 2022

LLRX

Privacy and cybersecurity issues impact every aspect of our lives – home, work, travel, education, health and medical records – to name but a few. On a weekly basis Pete Weiss highlights articles and information that focus on the increasingly complex and wide ranging ways technology is used to compromise and diminish our privacy and online security, often without our situational awareness.

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My 20 Most-Read Posts of 2022

LawSites

Every year since 2010, I have compiled a list of my most-popular posts. In some years, there has seemed to be a theme across the most-read posts. But this year, they seem to span the gamut of topics I cover, from analytics to artificial intelligence, from legal ethics to legal research, from new companies starting up to established companies shutting down, from products designed for litigation to products embroiled in litigation.

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Stay On Top of Newly Filed State & Federal Litigation: Curated Just for You!

With Daily Filings Report by Trellis you will receive an email and csv file daily with all new cases filed in the jurisdictions you're tracking. Each new case will include all case metadata like judge, parties, counsel, practice area, and even direct links to the full docket and complaint. Trellis Daily Filings Reports provide direct access to newly filed state and federal litigation curated just for you.

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Tips to Manage Legal Client Communication During the Holidays

MatterSuite

It’s that time of year again! With the holidays fast approaching, many in-house attorneys and their teams will be looking to carve out some extra time during the festive season to spend with loved ones. However, this also means that it’s just as important as ever to keep a check on incoming correspondence from outside parties. The added pressure of the holidays can often lead to heightened emotions and potentially strained interpersonal relationships.

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Does India Need a CBDC?

Ikigai Law

An analysis of whether India really needs a central bank digital currency. The United States wants to ‘get it right than to be first’. That’s what Jerome Powell, US Federal Reserve’s chairman said about the digital Dollar two years ago. The United States still doesn’t have a central bank-backed digital currency (CBDC). Meanwhile in India, RBI just piloted the digital Rupee (e₹) for retail users (like you and me).

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A Brave New World with ChatGPT

Above and Beyond KM

Blog owners get inundated with requests by people wishing to be guest bloggers. Usually they are selling something. So I say no — every time. Thanks to OpenAI, however, I may have found a guest blogger who is reasonably knowledgeable and isn’t a shill. What do you think? Blogger Replacement Theory? Back in the olden days, we thought machines might be handy to relieve humans of challenging or mind-numbing physical work.

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How Law Schools Could Solve the Legal Tech Competence Problem Almost Overnight

LawSites

This year marked the 10th anniversary of the American Bar Association’s adoption of the duty of technology competence for lawyers. Ever since, I have tracked states’ adoption of the duty , which is now up to 40 states. But even after 10 years and 40 states, many lawyers still lack competence in technology. Michael Quartararo. “I know the legal industry tends to move slow; but this is glacial progress,” says Michael Quartararo , president of the Association of Certified E-

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Directory of 60 Best Law Librarian Blogs & Websites Showcases Expertise of Law Librarians

Wisblawg

Feedspot, a social feed reader that curates news feeds from online sources, has recently compiled a list of the 60 Best Law Librarian Blogs and Websites. What a great round-up of content from an impressive list of law librarians of all types! I’m honored that WisBlawg appears as #3. Chances are good that you can learn a thing or two from these bloggers.

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Happy New Year 2023!

K&L Gates e-Discovery Analysis & Technology Group

The K&L Gates e-DAT Group send its best wishes to all for an amazing New Year!

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Jan. 6 committee tackled unprecedented attack with time-tested inquiry

LLRX

Claire Leavitt , Assistant Professor of Government, Smith College, presents an overview of the broad investigative powers of the Congress from the 1920s to the present. The latest investigation may be its most consequential to date. After 18 months, more than 1,200 interviews and 10 public hearings that presented 70 witnesses’ testimony, the House Select Committee to Investigate the January 6 Attack released its 845-page final report late on Dec. 22, 2022.

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ChatGPT Chatbot Can Write Anything from Student Essays to Legal Briefs, but Author and Reader Beware

Wisblawg

ChatGPT is a new AI-powered chatbot that answers complex questions conversationally. This remarkable tool that can assist with a wide range of tasks, from generating humanlike text to providing helpful answers to questions. This raises huge implications for research, education, business, and much more. “So the best way to think about this is you are chatting with a omniscient eager-to-please intern who sometimes lies to you,” describes Ethan Mollick, Professor of Management at the